Ship detection by Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) and satellites plays an important
role in a spectrum of related military and civil applications. To improve the detection …

Ship detection in panchromatic optical remote sensing images is faced with two major
challenges, locating candidate regions from complex backgrounds quickly and describing …

Maritime target detection from optical remote sensing images plays an important role in
related military and civil applications and its weakness lies in its compromised performance …

The detection of ships in optical remote sensing images with clouds, waves, and other
complex interferences is a challenging task with broad applications. Two main obstacles for …

Automatic ship detection by Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) and satellites is one of the
fundamental challenges in maritime research due to the variable appearances of ships and …

Efficient ship detection is essential to the strategies of commerce and military. However,
traditional ship detection methods have low detection efficiency and poor reliability due to …

Ship detection in visible remote sensing (VRS) images has been widely used in the military
and civil fields. However, the various backgrounds and the variable scale and orientation …

Reliably ship detection in optical satellite images has a wide application in both military and
civil fields. However, this problem is very difficult in complex backgrounds, such as waves …

A novel unsupervised ship detection and extraction method is proposed. A combination
model based on visual saliency is constructed for searching the ship target regions and …

Major challenges for automatic ship detection in optical remote sensing (ORS) images
include cloud, wave, island, wake clutters, and even the high variability of targets. This paper …